Simply luxurious life

"Living alone . . . affords an unparalleled opportunity to know yourself, to be yourself, and to develop yourself as a unique and interesting individual." -Phyl

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Simple pleasures, also known on The Simple Sophisticate podcast as Petit Plaisirs , are simple, inexpensive, yet intentional ways to elevate the everyday. In 20

A helpful marketing ploy to sell a book, an article or a product is to smack the word "happy" on the title. After all, the United States' Declaration of Indepen

In this blog post, I’m sharing various ways to elevate your everyday life by infusing it with touches of luxury, making even the simplest routines feel extraordinary.

When I started this blog, I had no idea that it would bring me friends around the world. Talented and energetic women who I am proud to know!

“In both adolescent and young adult brains, the prefrontal cortex —the processing center of our frontal lobe —is the last part to fully develop, and it is responsibile for complex functions such as pl

10 Ideas for Living a More Elegant Life in a Difficult Time This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. My husband mentioned recently, after having his sandwich on one of the melamine plates we keep for the granddaughters that he wished we led a more...

"The lack of meaning in our lives stresses us out, but too much stress makes it harder to find meaning." —Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, author of The Stress Solution Y

"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience." —Paul Cezanne, French Post-Impressionist painter who spent much of his life in Provence Upo